. >> is the third era of the ku klux klan. people think about the post-civil war clan. nized inally the way that many people understand ku klux klan violent. it's mostly in the south, it's mostly anti-black and oriented against the intrusion of the federal government into the battles against integration in the south. what i'm looking at is a more ideologically diverse movement in the 80's that brought together people who had been in n.e third kla i'm lolooking at the unification protesters, people who follow white supremacists ideologies, and skinheads organized around the story of the vietnam war. character from the third klan. it was organized during leaderless resistance. what we now think of as self silent terrorism, you can organize a smaller number of activists so that they can be infiltrated or prosecuted. the bible that be the turner diaries? >> absolutely. it's a utopian novel. it lays out how a strategy like this could work to take on the highly militarized superstate. amy: professor, you write about 1979, the shooting of communist protesters in north carolina.

senator from alabama who was part of the ku klux klan but today this bridge is known all around the world for the courageous fight that took place here for the right to vote and it is known for that. how we arek about going to help to revitalize the city of selma, you can't pay for the marketing of the fact that the whole world knows about the bridge, not because of who it is named after, but because of the great event that took place there. if you asked most folks who grew up in some a -- grew up in selma , we know about the complicated history. war and that civil civil rights live side-by-side here. we can't change that, we have to learn from the history. it is part of american history and the think it is important that we embrace our history, even the painful parts and tell our own story because it we who are from selma do not tell the history, others will and they may not get it right. they may not see it through the lens of people who grew up in her and understand the complicated nature of its history. we can't change that history, but i think it is important that we learn from it. y

it was not just extremist views like the ku klux klan. there's no reason to allow a few thousand people at best to define a symbol that meant something different for other people. if you go through a highlight reel of the civil rights era, you will find the confederate flag almost all the time in the hands of ordinary people. whenabama, the state guard martin luther king was in selma or when james meredith appeared on campus at ole miss in 1962 to integrate. the boys used to waving the flag's football games waved it in his face to turn him away from campus. marcherscivil rights arrived in 1965, they were greeted by at least one confederate flag. when virginia passes massive resistance laws in the 1950's, one young man was there to associate his support for white supremacy and states rights with a confederate flag. integrated,rock was central high was integrated in 1959, the confederate flag was there as well, as it was in birmingham in 1963 when the white students wanted to boycott integration efforts in birmingham, or when students in lo

very clearly j edgar hoover was in bed with the ku klux klan and was an absolute opponent of the movement. with respect to and of course as director of the fbi, he was reported to robert kennedy. often did not pass along the information. of the justice department didn't know half of what hoover knew. with respect to the labor movement, again ambivalent legacy. there were moments when the labor movement was supportive of the civil rights movement but again we have to ask was this leadership or rank-and- file. one of the great moments of the labor movement came in birmingham, alabama in 1963 because 2000 black children were placed in jail, all of them had to be bailed out. where did the money come from. in fact, it was the union's that raised tens of thousands of dollars to bail out the children in birmingham, alabama in 1963. of course, it was the labor movement that help support the civil rights act of 1964. >> i would agree that there is an ambivalent relationship there. certainly, between some local activist that are more very established and more traditional unions, there could be more

good people who have tarnished the reputation of the confederate flag is nobody else has, the ku klux klan. this was at the southern poverty law center in montgomery in the early 1980's. the klan was born immediately after the civil war. it was formed of former confederate veterans in 1866. the confederate flag was not visible the first incarnation of the flag in the 1860's. nor could i find it in the second klan born after "words of nation" --birth of a that thrived into the 1920's. this was the earliest use of the flag i have been able to find, the earliest graphic use. this was a memorial day march in 1939. they were interlopers. ralph mcgill and other editors excoriated them for being involved in march and tarnishing the flag with their presence. 1946, the confederate flag and become part of the ritual of the third klan. you see it with the hangman's noose, christian cross, bible, american flag, and confederate flag. they more or less took over the confederate flag. a lot of people today associate it with the klan. more important was this moment in birmingham in 1948 in july when the d

who club clan -- the ku klux klan and we are going to keep segregation but in a nonviolent and peaceful way. it wasn't the citizens council keeping down the hotheads. the folks are either going along for the ride or they are speaking into a silence where they keep their heads down and don't say anything and so for that period from the late 50s to the early 60s this was mississippi the madhouse then, that is one of the journalists who talked about it, mississippi the society that was written about in 1964 that was happening in alabama and georgia, it was happening across the deep south. so that's what i'm talking about. thank you so much for coming out. this has been a lot of fun. [applause] we recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading this summer. >> first of all i just finished a book, like just last week that was very enjoyable. it's called deadweight cub crossing of the lusitania which is one of the books that led to the united states getting involved in world war i but it was fascinating. i like the writing and i've read one of the books previous

ron stallworth, the film starsjohn david washington as the black detective who infiltrates the ku klux klant know that i've ever seen a movie exploit its tonal mismatches voraciously and purposefully." judge for yourself when blackkklansman opens here in august. one film you probably won't be seeing in the immediate future is the man who killed don quixote, the long—awaited passion project from terry gilliam, which took a debut bow at cannes amid a heated lawsuit about rights and ownership. if you saw the documentary lost in la mancha about gilliam's previous failed attempt to make this dream project, you can be forgiven for thinking that he would never get it completed — but complete it, he did. and it is vintage gilliam that does not disappoint. i really hope you get to see it in the not—too—distant future. don quixote de la mancha! come to restore the lost age of chivalry! well, i wrote that. blasphemy! a hand of our god in heaven wrote me. can i read? a peasant like you cannot read! i will sound the words and you can look at the pictures. there was much discussion at cannes about the ro

>> i'm just talking about david duke and the ku klux klan here? tly, i don't know david duke. >> he says i'm just talking about david duke and the ku klux klan here and you say honestly i don't know david duke. >> let me tell you, i'm sitting in a house in florida with a very bad earpiece they gave me and you could hardly hear what he was saying. >> except he repeated david duke's name in his answer to jake tapper or the president's 360 on who deserved blame in charlottesville. >> we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides. on many sides. >> as i said on saturday, we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence. it has no place in america. >> you had a group on one side that was bad and you had a group on the other side that was also very vile thean violent and nobo say that. i'll say it right now. >> i think there was blame on both side. >> but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. >> i only tell you this.

in fact, restrained by lyndon johnson, but we now know that the fbi had an informant within the ku klux klan from the mid-'50s. and the fbi knew what they were going to do if they did it. they knew of the attack on the freedom riders in 1965. when viola greg was murdered at the end of the march. gary row was in the car from which she was shot. and the fbi knew the next day what had happened and who had done it because they had an informant right there in the car. and even the suggestion that row himself was the person who fired the shot. so very clearly jay edgar hoover was in bed with the ku klux klan and an absolute opponent with the movement, with respect to, and of course, as director of the fbi, he reported to robert kennedy. but often did not pass along the information, so the justice didn't know know half of what hoover knew. with respect to the labor movement, it is an ambivalent legacy. there were moments when the labor movement was supportive of the civil rights movement, but again, we have to add the sister leadership or the sister rank in file. one of the great movements of the l

and what forced his withdrawal were reports that he had efended the first ku klux klan in an online post, that is the first, i suppose, the emergence of the ku klux klan. as recently as 2011. nominee er had his ithdrawn over reports that transgender children were, and i'm quoting him now, part of satan's plan. now, look. if i were to call out these remarks, you might not think that anybody who had even thought of going on a federal bench would be who i was talking about. but that is exactly who we were talking about. and that is why this congressional black caucus cannot possibly support this nominee. and we are prepared to understand that whatever nominee comes forward is going to be a conservative nominee. we're not asking for the nominee we would appoint. we're simply not asking, and we will do all we can to oppose nominees who are beyond the american pale. i'm speaking for the congressional black caucus, which represents 17 million african-americans. it's interesting to note that we have, in looking at judge kavanaugh, and here i'm going on to the supreme court, in looking at his dec

because there was a time when the ku klux klan could march, and now you don't even see them marching anymore with their sheets and hoods on. your name see the marching anymore because a lot of them went online through the internet and they recruited them. they have hung their sheets up and put on badges. you have to get them off the police force. first thing that the color from flint said is exactly the reason to do this program, both recruiting people from the communities and making sure people know the communities. any professional, you are a public servant if you are a police officer, part of the job is getting to know the community intimately. and that is a job from the top down in the bottom up, you are required to do it, and then you do do it. and this collar is right. largely, what has happened is we have people who are outside the neighborhoods, may not even have a lot of experience in a black crime and and you see you see this world as a place crime is cropping up all over the place, and you don't see it for its other aspects. the deep sense of distrust that this caller said

we are different from the ku klux klan was big in the 1920s and we are different from those folks who live out in the county and we are going to keep segregation but we're going to do it nonviolent, in a peaceful way and we're going to run the same. and that was the way they talk about the citizens council, that's the way they thought about themselves but what happened over the course of the late 1950s, it wasn't the citizens council that were keeping down his and the violence types in the plan. if you look, state after state in the deep south what's happening is if the clan and the more militant demagogue time that are radicalizing counsel. so that the people who were quote unquote good white folks are either going along for the ride or their slinky into a towering silence where they're keeping their head down and not saying anything for that. from the late 50s through the early 60s, this was mississippi, madhouse been. that was one of the journalists who talked about it. this was mississippi the closed society. "over brothers in 1954 and it was happening in alabama too. adding in ge

this is the one associated with the ku klux klan and other groups. it is that flag of nathan bedford forrest, that would become known as the symbol of oppression, especially be modern civil rights era. whether you like it or not, the reality is they were no loud cries from sub and saying do not .surp our images do not take them from the battles. there are people living in america right now, like many of thein this room, who recall 1950's and the 1960's as young people and what was happening. the question of which heritage are we trying to preserve and keep when we think about confederate symbols? again it becomes messy. if we are really intellectually and emotionally honest about this, we understand they are and profanefor some to others. the question moved from dealing with flags that are on state houses to, what do we do with the symbols themselves? thatundreds of statues stand in the front of courtyards and parks in particular. few people were having a itversation about removing from cemeteries. this was about the public square where the public is

some movie about an old southern town where the law enforcement people are the members of the ku klux klan if you think about it, had the texts not come to light, strzok would still be gathering information and investigating now president trump. >> absolutely. >> neil: and there by the great of god came the revelations what was going on. regardless how people feel ant president trump had a favor for president trump. note a one was biassed toward him. a lot of bias against him. >> the deep state is not a myth. the deep state, a government that believes it's in charge regardless of the will of the people, that it's in charge of how the government works, in charge of how the country works is not a myth. it's a reality and it's hard at work in the person of mr. strzok and i presume in a person of mrs. page -- i beg your pardon, his girlfriend as well. there's something terrifying about the fbi, whom we look upon as golden, absolutely shining examples of law enforcement, turn out to be as corrupt as corrupt could be. it's a very scary situation. not at all a good sign about law enforcement in t

only did he premier "the birth of a nation," which was all about black men being rapists and the ku klux klan saving the south. it is painful. if you have time, you can take a look at it. woodrow wilson, who was mostly progressive in economic policy and to a certain extent in international relations, is really not progressive when it comes to race. he fired all black federal government officers because he did not want any black people in the federal government. he establishes the league of nations. or helps to establish it, even though that's voted down by the u.s. congress. but he has this idea of national self-determination for everyone. and the moment people said, does this apply to asia and africa, he said of course not. i meant only europeans. o when it comes to race, he's extremely retrogress sieve. but that is how pernicious the dunning school was. it was in the white house, in hollywood, everywhere. that was the picture of reconstruction that was dominant. there is one dissenting voice, the famous black intellectual historian activist, one of the founders of the naacp, dubois. he wrot

. >> he was a neo-nazi, leader of the ku klux klan, got elected in 1990. subsequent ran for governor and ran for the united states senate. in one or both of the elections got two out of every three white votes. i have said in the book, that, we are not seeing anything now on the national level that we haven't seen in louisiana. relating to that racial issue. it is critically important, it is critical to talk about the cause of white supremacy. because we have seen examples in -- in our history. that when one group of people think they're superior to another, atrs tees occur. you can see examples where we as human beings have allowed ourselves. we didn't check our worst impulses to get to a place that created very dark moments in history. >> you actually setd the parallels between david duke and president trump as demagogues are breathtaking. his make america great again slogan is the dog whistle of all time. >> so, yeah, if you spend any time in the south, you speak to most people. african-americans you say i want to make america great. they will go, me to

. >>> after doing episodes of the ku klux klan, and bear in alaska, you get to go to hawaii this timelike bourdain. mother [ bleep ]. >>> my next stop is the big island of hawaii, to check out a historic fish bond at the -- national park. by the 1970s the land had fallen into disrepair and was targeted by developers. that's when native hawaiian activists stepped in. their protests not only helped restore it, but turned it into a national park. another example of hawaiians showing the world that good can triumph over evil. today that spirit lives on with ruth alua. she's a guardian of the park's historic fish bond and she works with the federal government to continue its restoration. >> so this fish bond is hundreds of years old. it's always been used to produce fish. so we can just literally jump down and hand pick the fish you would want from the fish bond. >> so this is a way for people to sustainably fish, and it doesn't require a lot of unnatural energy or resources? >> yes, yeah, that's exactly it. >> here's how this fish bond works. ruth's ancestors built the stone walls to crea

charlottesville residents argues the organizers of the august 17 unite the right rally violated the 1871 ku klux klan act and the 1866 civil rights act. the suit specifically names prominent white supremacists, including jason kessler, richard spencer, and james fields, who killed anti-racist protester, heather heyer, when he drove his car through a crowd of counter protesters. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. juan: and i'm juan gonzalez. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. in a move to push the supreme court further to the right, president trump has nominated federal judge brett kavanaugh to fill anthony kennedy's seat on the high court. if kavanaugh is confirmed, it would create a bloc of five right-wing justices making it the most conservative court since the 1930's. critics warn a a solid right-wig cocourt could lead to major rollbacks for voting rights, reproductive rights, civil rightsts, environmental regulatitions, gun control, reproductive rights, eve

white power groups like the ku klux klan, skinheads, neo-nazis the new recruits and disaffected veterans, active duty personnel and civilians once u.s. and its involvement in vietnam. the various actions of these groups range from assassination, armed robbery, weapons trafficking and much more. while america is a new to the presence of these groups, the attitude towards the government and how to conduct themselves changed. in "bring the war home" she argues it was after the vietnam war when white supremacy groups fought against government interest instead of for them. why and how they made the shift is something i will be to our author to explain. without further ado here is kathleen belew. [applause] >> hi. how was the ball back there? okay? louder? hello? is that better? good. hello. i'm kathleen belew. i'm here to present this new book, coming to you from chicago where it is still winter so thank you very much for having sentient. it's the thing i have forgot about. so my book trend that is about the white punk movement from its formation in 1979 to the oklahoma city bombing in 1995.

successfully prosecuted another famous decades-old civil rights case.ct he con two members of the ku klux klan for the murder of four young black girls in the 1963 bombing at the 16th street baptist church in birmingham, alabama. senator, welcome to the "newshour". i wonder if you could give me your reaction to the news of the reopening of the inquiry into emmett tils case. >> it's pretty exciting. that's a decades-old case that needs as thorough look as apossible. it uphill battle on any of the old cases, but that one of all the cases out there needs as thorough a look as possible. 'll see how i goes. >> the doj said there is new evidence but haven't ex bhaindz what the evidence might be or who they're looking at. why do you think this is happening now? >> well, obviously, they have seen some ne evidence. i think there are media reports about admissions that the rife of one of the former defendantsw who is n deceased has made. i think that's probably part of it and i think theustice department, over the years, has been very active in trying to take a look athese old cases. from the time i was

. >> he was a neo-nazi, the leader of the ku klux klan. he got the elected to the legislature in 1990, ran for governor and united states senate and got two out of every three white votes. i have said in the book that we're not seeing anything now on the national level that we haven't seen in louisiana relating to that racial issue. but it's critically important. it is critical to talk about the cause of white supremacy, because we have seen examples in our history that when one group of people think they're superior to another, atrocities occur. and one of them is slavery. one of them is the holocaust. one of them is apartheid. you can see examples of where we has human beings have allowed ourselves because we didn't check our worst impulses and got to a place unique in history. >> you said, his great america great slogan is the dog whistle of all time. >> if you spend any time in the south, and you go speak to most people, and particularly african-americans, and you say, i want to make america great, they'll go, me too. but if you put th

confederate battle flag from the alabama state capital, the macedonia baptist church versus the ku klux klan, a $37 million judgment for its role in the burning of a southern baptist church. takes a role in controversial activity, often stirring up controversy himself, but always newsworthy. and to my immediate left, again, not politically, but we know each other well. >> that's for sure. >> fellow members of the mclaughlin group. we're coming back. in fact, what's amazing, this is appropriate this morning, ladies and gentlemen, and so many people since the passing of don mclaughlin have e-mailed us, people from the left and the right, saying they really miss how we handle balance and fairness on our program, which my grandma always called the shouting show. the show didn't change, society did. now this course is so rare that it's hard to get people in the same room. he's the current editor in chief of "the weekly standard," author of three books, former senior writer for "the national journal." he has appeared in the "times salon." like myself, a fellow pundit here in the great beltway, and

obviously, lingering opposition, the ku klux klan is going to appear within a short period of time, and other kinds of violent opposition to freedom is still going to linger across the state. at first, even though freedom has been granted, there is not a clear-cut set of rights coming with it. the emancipation proclamation says people are free but it doesn't say what else they can do. past segregation laws. schools can exist but they have to be separate, black and white schools. ant that means is that increasingly reluctant state government is probably going to provide and, in fact, does provide less money for the black schools as it does for the white schools. local county or city governments are going to take the same approach. they are going to do kind of the bare minimum to keep from getting in trouble. the overall trend is real difference between how whites and blacks are being treated in schools in terms of society. segregated places to eat, hotels , as well as schools, and even participation in some activities. the most significant changes actually come with the great depression.

and so you have new opportunities for african-americans, obviously, lingering the ku klux klan will appear period of time and other kinds of -- violent opposition freedom will linger in a sporadic way across the state but at first -- even though freedom has been granted, there's not a clear cut set of rights with emancipation proclamation says it is free but it doesn't say what else he can do. what they do is pass -- segregation laws, schools can exist but they have to be separate black and white schools and -- what that means is that -- an increasingly and less money for the black schools that are supposed to the white schools. and local cities -- governments, are going to take the same approach, you know, they're going to do kind of a bear minimum to keep from getting in trouble. but the overall trend is real difference between the way whites and blacks are being treated in schools and in terms of society -- and places, hotels -- as well as schools and even precipitation in some activities. most significant changes actually come with the great depression because up to that time, african-

it's based on a real story, an absurd story of a black cop in the early '70s who infiltrated the ku klux klanenzel washington's son is in it. he teams up with adam driver who's the physical embodiment of this. they thwart some pretty heavy acts of violence being planned by the clan. it's very funny. but, of course, it's spike lee, so it's going to draw some parallels to today's times. >> sure. >>> over the weekend i saw ""incredibles 2"" with my 6-year-old who hadn't seen "1." yet. it's incredit tobl see what they've done. but this "incredibles 2" could be the biggest blockbuster movie of the summer, right? >> it definitely had the biggest opening of any animated movie we've ever seen. it's fantastic. i can't do my kids' math homework and there's math in this one, and i related to it incredibly, and it's an incredible movie. they're not going to wait 14 years, let's put it that way, before they make a third. >> erik, "ant-man" and "the wasp," where do they go? >> i have a lot of parents on my block who did tanlt their kids to see "infinity wars." this is breezy. the first female superhero in

obviously lingering opposition in the ku klux klan is going here.in a short period of time and in other kinds of violent opposition to freedom is still going to linger. extract ways across the state. but at first, even though freedom has been granted, it's not a clear-cut set of rights coming with it. and the emancipation proclamation says people are free but it doesn't say what else they can do . what they do is pass segregation laws, who could exist if they have to be separate black-and-white school and what that means is that an increasing reluctance that state government is going to provide and in fact does provide less money for the black school as opposed to white school and local county or city governments are going to take the same approach and they're going to do kind of the bare minimum to keep from getting in trouble but the overall trend is for the real difference between the way whites and blacks are being treated in schools and in terms of society. segregation and segregated places to eat, hotels, as well as schools and even participat

el hallazgo de una bolsa con folletos en apoyo a ku klux klan ha causado malestar en illinois, los volantesco ¿ustedes no comen picante? >> no. >> pero con mucho chile y limÓn desde la ciudad de mÉxico. >> escuchen esto con atenciÓn amigos porque hace 20 aÑos que muriÓ cantinflas y su nombre no ha dejado de estar en medio de controversias karina monroe, cÓmo estÁs, quÉ gusto saludarte. >> querido marco, muy bien, mi comadre carmen, querido marco, tÚ no sabes, pero carmen es una chismosa de clÓset en potencia no sabes el chisme que sabe echar la villalobos. >> una cosa divina. >> me tienen que poner candado dios mÍo porque me encanta el chisme. >> hoy les voy a contar como nos dice marco es que estamos muy cerca de un aniversario mÁs del nacimiento de cantinflas este prÓximo agosto y su heredera universal de todo lo que tenga que ver con cantinflas asegura que va a mudar los restos no solamente de cantinflas si no de su esposa y de mario moreno quien la nombrÓ como heredera, puesto que el panteÓn estÁ muy pÉsimas condiciones vamos a escucharla. >> en esta ocasiÓn nos vemos como en la necesid

is like the ku klux klan? >> charles, thank you for having me on.essive, extreme legislator in washington, no surprise, she wants to run for president in 2020. going to take the extreme views. i've been down to the border wall. seen what's happening down there. we need to finish the wall. that's the most humane thing to do and need to allow i.c.e. to do their job. we have ms-13 gang members rounded up. we need to make sure i.c.e. is allowed to identify those and make sure those folks are deported, committing crimes in our country illegally, with elizabeth warren, there are no borders for her and wants to make sure law enforcement can't do their job. charles: jeff, again, she must know the official functions of i.c.e. and must understand that polls reflect democrat support for i.c.e. and this kind of rhetoric makes their job harder. the shaming of a law enforcement agency they think has a pretty good track record. they're not at the border ripping babies from their mothers as being portrayed by democrats. i'm sure you're going to pound away at this a

. >> what about when he denied knowing who david duke was and what the ku klux klan had done sunday beforesoft president. >> that's racist though, isn't it? >> what's that? >> isn't that racist? there's a difference between not being soft and fluffy and be -- >> fair enough, joe. fair enough to the general population it would look like it is racist. the man is not racist. he is not a racist. we know him. we can paint him with a racist brush if we don't like his policy, but that's not who the man is. when you dig deep into the guy, we know he is not racist. >> charlie? >> look, you know, part of it is what are you willing to accept. you know, how much of the racism, how much of the xenophobia, how much of the anti-muslim bias, how much of the treatment of when. i remember when conservatives said character matters. i remember when conservatives would have united behind, you know, a hard line on the russian attack. if barack obama had behaved the way donald trump behaved last week, eric bollings head would have exploded. >> i think barack obama leaned over and said, don't worry when i get my